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Omar Sey
Researcher at Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
Publications - 3
Citations - 818
Omar Sey is an academic researcher from Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The author has contributed to research in topics: Malaria & Mortality rate. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 800 citations.
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Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia: a retrospective analysis
Serign J. Ceesay,Climent Casals-Pascual,Jamie Erskine,Jamie Erskine,Samuel E Anya,Samuel E Anya,Nancy O. Duah,Anthony J. C. Fulford,Anthony J. C. Fulford,Sanie S. S. Sesay,Ismaela Abubakar,Samuel Dunyo,Omar Sey,Ayo Palmer,Malang Fofana,Tumani Corrah,Kalifa Bojang,Hilton Whittle,Brian Greenwood,David J. Conway,David J. Conway +20 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the changes in malaria indices in this country, and the causes and public health significance of these changes, concluding that a large proportion of the malaria burden has been alleviated in The Gambia.
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Changes in malaria indices between 1999 and 2007 in The Gambia : a retrospective analysis. Commentary
Peter Byass,Serign J. Ceesay,Climent Casals-Pascual,Jamie Erskine,Samuel E Anya,Nancy O. Duah,Anthony J. C. Fulford,Sanie S. S. Sesay,Ismaela Abubakar,Samuel K. Dunyo,Omar Sey,Ayo Palmer,Malang Fofana,Tumani Corrah,Kalifa Bojang,Hilton Whittle,Brian Greenwood,David J. Conway +17 more
TL;DR: A large proportion of the malaria burden has been alleviated in The Gambia and the results encourage consideration of a policy to eliminate malaria as a public-health problem, while emphasising the importance of accurate and continuous surveillance.
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Health workers lost to international bodies in poor countries.
TL;DR: This work draws attention to a further drain on the meagre numbers of doctors and nurses in most disadvantaged countries and refers to their employment of locally trained health workers in countries where there is a shortage of NHS staff, the only source of health provision for poor people there.